A Dutch newspaper report highlighted by theJewish Telegraphic Agency on discord between American Jewish organizations and the virulent anti-Muslim politician Geert Wilders has cast a renewed spotlight on organized Jewish support for Wilders.

The Dutch publication De Telegraaf reported recently that American Jewish organizations like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) and the Orthodox Union (OU) were “furious” at Wilders’ support for a bill that would have banned “ritual slaughter” in the Netherlands. Though the bill passed, the Dutch Senate scrapped it in June.

Wim Kortenoeven, a disgruntled former member of Wilders’ Party for Freedom,told the JTA that the ADL, OU and ZOA “may have helped Wilders out by organizing fundraising events here and there, and perhaps with some publicity.” Kortenoeven met with Jewish organizations earlier this month to sound the alarm on the Party for Freedom’s support for the ritual slaughter bill.

All three organizations have denied raising funds for Wilders and his party. Wilders, too, has denied the Dutch report, telling the JTA that Kortenoeven’s statements were “nonsense and agitation by a spiteful former member” of his party.

The report that the ADL has ties to Wilders is dubious and likely wrong, given that the ADL routinely blasts Wilders’ Islamophobic rhetoric. But while the ZOA’s head Morton Klein may be “‘shocked and disappointed’ to learn of Wilders’ positions on ritual slaughter,” (as the original JTA report stated), the ZOA has supported Wilders’ positions in the past. Other high-profile Jewish figures have as well.

The ZOA’s executive director told JTA that “it is highly unlikely, if not impossible, that anyone officially connected to the ZOA raised money on Mr. Wilders’ behalf.”

The ADL, OU and ZOA have not returned requests for comment as of this writing.

There is likely no merit to the allegation that the ADL, ZOA and OU helped with funding Wilders. But the report is an opportunity to look at the proven, and disturbing, links between Wilders and right-wing Israel lobby groups. In contrast to 20th century far-right groups that were blatantly anti-Semitic, the new far-right focuses on the threat of Islam and strongly allies with Israel. Wilders has enjoyed the fruits of this relatively new alliance.

It’s not only the ZOA that has supported Wilders. As Max Blumenthal reported inThe Nation, Wilders spoke to a “rapt” American audience at the Gatestone Institute in April. The neoconservative institute had guests pay $10,000 a head to hear Wilders say things like, “Islam is the largest threat to freedom which the world is currently facing.” The Gatestone Institute was founded by one Nina Rosenwald, who has spent millions of dollars stoking the flames of hatred towards Muslims in the US. Rosenwald has served on the board of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.